Apex · The Black Dahlia Murder

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 9 and 11-13, and 3 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
APEX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 20 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-45.

PART C
PART I
PART C
PART I
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS7CISVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apex?

120 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Apex hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Apex?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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